Do you drive it or ride it? Day 1: Motorcycle

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Board 8 » Do you drive it or ride it? Day 1: Motorcycle

MrSmartGuy

11/15/2020 02:16:28 PM

11/15/2020

02:16 PM

Inspired by the dumbest argument in the history of sports discord

Drive
Ride

Vote

Thanks, Wigs, Nick, and Bartz.

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WiggumFan267

11/15/2020 02:21:00 PM

11/15/2020

02:21 PM

both! I think

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NFUN

11/15/2020 02:29:08 PM

11/15/2020

02:29 PM

...both?

two wheels, go zoom

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KCF0107

11/15/2020 03:08:37 PM

11/15/2020

03:08 PM

I think it depends if you are the one operating it or are a mere passenger

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Drakeryn

11/15/2020 03:11:02 PM

11/15/2020

03:11 PM

KCF0107 posted...

I think it depends if you are the one operating it or are a mere passenger

another place and time, without a great divide, and we could be flying deadly high

banananor

11/15/2020 03:13:21 PM

11/15/2020

03:13 PM

bolth

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VintageGin

11/15/2020 03:32:33 PM

11/15/2020

03:32 PM

Ride it

There's a reason "Do you ride?" is a common way of asking if someone rides a motorcycle

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azuarc

11/15/2020 04:14:58 PM

11/15/2020

04:14 PM

Day 1? What else can you do this topic with? A golf cart?

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MrSmartGuy

11/15/2020 04:51:22 PM

11/15/2020

04:51 PM

Oh you have no fucking idea what we got into in the sports chat.

.... except I guess you will now, cuz I'm just gonna post a list of things we discussed that could potentially be "driven".

Golf cart
Remote-Controlled Car Toy
Little Tyke cars with batteries
Little Tyke cars with a steering wheel, but you have to use your feet
Motor-powered scooters
Razor Scooters
Skateboards
Roller Skates
Motorboats
Sailboats
Paddle-boat
Canoe
Pedal tavern/party bike
Treadmills
Stairmasters
Horse
Horse, but you're the "driver" of a carriage behind it
Teacups at Disneyland

Paste which ones you think you could properly use the word "drive" in place of the word "operate".

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StealThisSheen

11/15/2020 05:31:15 PM

11/15/2020

05:31 PM

#10

"Ride" is more common, but "drive" is more correct. You get a motorcycle driver's license, after all.

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azuarc

11/15/2020 05:53:38 PM

11/15/2020

05:53 PM

#11

Drive
Golf cart
Horse, but you're the "driver" of a carriage behind it

Ride
Little Tyke cars with batteries
Little Tyke cars with a steering wheel, but you have to use your feet
Motor-powered scooters
Horse

Neither
Remote-Controlled Car Toy
Razor Scooters
Skateboards
Roller Skates
Motorboats
Sailboats
Paddle-boat
Canoe
Treadmills
Stairmasters

WTF?
Teacups at Disneyland

No idea what this is
Pedal tavern/party bike

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azuarc

11/15/2020 05:54:43 PM

11/15/2020

05:54 PM

#12

Also, no go-kart?

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KingButz

11/15/2020 05:54:59 PM

11/15/2020

05:54 PM

#13

Wait, you don't ride a skateboard??

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azuarc

11/15/2020 05:58:00 PM

11/15/2020

05:58 PM

#14

Eh, I guess. By that argument, the Razr Scooters, too. I don't think of it as "riding a skateboard," though. Do you ride a surfboard?

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Forceful_Dragon

11/15/2020 06:00:03 PM

11/15/2020

06:00 PM

#15

Can I nominate "submarime" and "paramotor"?

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KingButz

11/15/2020 06:20:10 PM

11/15/2020

06:20 PM

#16

I go skating or go surfing, but i feel like I "ride" them too.

I would ride a surfboard before I would surf a surfboard

rip imgcake

Nanis23

11/15/2020 06:23:56 PM

11/15/2020

06:23 PM

#17

Voted for Ride

But my English sucks which means Drive is the correct choice

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Johnbobb

11/15/2020 07:17:25 PM

11/15/2020

07:17 PM

#18

azuarc posted...

Teacups at Disneyland

dude that's literally called a carnival ride

you ride it

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azuarc

11/16/2020 01:14:27 AM

11/16/2020

01:14 AM

#19

Johnbobb posted...

dude that's literally called a carnival ride

you ride it

Yes, my question is why is it even here. How would you possibly drive it? Like, if you said the cars in the speedway circuit, whatever you call that, yeah, maybe you drive that rather than ride it since you have control over the movement. And you definitely drive a bumper car. But I'm struggling to think of other amusement park rides that you would ever classify as driving.

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MrSmartGuy

11/16/2020 01:20:38 AM

11/16/2020

01:20 AM

#20

Look, our discussion lead to an assertion that most things with steering wheels are in the "drive" category and the teacups were thrown out as an antithesis. It was a very dumb discussion in general, and I just made this topic to put into perspective just how mind-numbing it was.

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NFUN

11/16/2020 01:34:16 AM

11/16/2020

01:34 AM

#21

you drive anything that you are the direct and principle controller of and you ride anything that allows you to be a passenger

these definitions are just... correct, and they're not mutually exclusive

i was going to throw out an example that this argument is like arguing, I dunno, whether cats vs jellyfish vs sponges vs mushrooms are animals... and then I realized that that's not really out of the question for #sports, is it

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TomNook

11/16/2020 01:36:06 AM

11/16/2020

01:36 AM

#22

I think a motor seems to be the main thing that turns something into Drive (in conjunction with not being a passenger).

Because you ride a bike, you ride a skateboard, you ride a sled, you ride a horse. Even though you are capable of steering them, the motor is what makes things like driving a car, driving a motorcycle, driving a forklift, etc.

The one that stands out from the examples as being different is the horse carriage, but that's more of a different definition of drive, and could be more closely related to driving a nail into a piece of wood or driving away a wolf from your sheep.

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NFUN

11/16/2020 01:41:06 AM

11/16/2020

01:41 AM

#23

TomNook posted...

I think a motor seems to be the main thing that turns something into Drive.

Because you ride a bike, you ride a skateboard, you ride a sled, you ride a horse. Even though you are capable of steering them, the motor is what makes things like driving a car, driving a motorcycle, driving a forklift, etc.

The one that stands out from the examples as being different is the horse carriage, but that's more of a different definition of drive, and could be more closely related to driving a nail into a piece of wood.

People would probably object to saying you "drive" an airplane, even though that's not really different than driving a car. I suppose I can allow that driving a carriage or driving sled dogs is a different manner of "drive" than driving a vehicle and shouldn't really count, but even then, you're just adding one more qualification to the still pretty unambiguous term, and motorcycles cleanly fall well inside either definition

My heuristic justifying my definition is basically "how confused would I be if somebody used the term in real life".

"Drive a car". Perfectly fine, obviously
"Drive a motorcycle". Equally fine
"Drive a skateboard". A little weird, but whatever
"Drive a treadmill". You're smoking crack

and i think the topic in general wants to imply that you "ride" something only if you don't "drive" it?

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TomNook

11/16/2020 01:43:48 AM

11/16/2020

01:43 AM

#24

NFUN posted...

People would probably object to saying you "drive" an airplane, even though that's not really different than driving a car.

There could also be a case that land, air, and water have different terms for 'driving', and that drive refers just to the land vehicles.

Bells, bells, bells!

NFUN

11/16/2020 01:51:09 AM

11/16/2020

01:51 AM

#25

TomNook posted...

There could also be a case that land, air, and water have different terms for 'driving', and that drive refers just to the land vehicles.

you totally drive a boat though

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TomNook

11/16/2020 02:00:19 AM

11/16/2020

02:00 AM

#26

NFUN posted...

you totally drive a boat though

Do you? I've always heard people say sail, row, captain, steer, or operate.

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redrocket

11/16/2020 06:06:03 AM

11/16/2020

06:06 AM

#27

NFUN posted...

you drive anything that you are the direct and principle controller of and you ride anything that allows you to be a passenger

This, with a couple of caveats. For motorcycles/bicycles it is very common in colloquial speech to use the term ride either way. That said, drive is still (for motorcycles anyway) technically correct for the principal operator. You can use either one depending on context/social setting.

Also, for boats the proper nautical term for the operator is pilot/piloting.

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Drakeryn

11/16/2020 01:06:22 PM

11/16/2020

01:06 PM

#28

NFUN posted...

you totally drive a boat though

I think this also falls under the motor rule

like, you drive a speedboat

you definitely don't drive a rowboat

another place and time, without a great divide, and we could be flying deadly high

NFUN

11/16/2020 01:11:51 PM

11/16/2020

01:11 PM

#29

Drakeryn posted...

I think this also falls under the motor rule

like, you drive a speedboat

you definitely don't drive a rowboat

yeah, that's what i meant. was just addressing the land/air/sea trilemma thing. I'm of the mind that if you drive a skateboard and you drive a speedboat, you drive a rowboat, and if you don't drive a skateboard and do drive a speedboat, then you don't drive a rowboat

really though, from a physics perspective, "drive" describes what you do on a skateboard or rowboat perfectly

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azuarc

11/16/2020 07:36:45 PM

11/16/2020

07:36 PM

#30

So do you drive a screw or do you ride a screw?

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Whiskey_Nick

11/16/2020 07:50:09 PM

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07:50 PM